03471cam a2200481 4500 607899178 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 130828s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385534949 electronic bk. 0385534949 electronic bk. B00BVJG2LA Amazon 22202095-68f4-426a-b502-97963f05f0b5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1256207 OverDrive (Product ID) 212150 212150 212150 (OCoLC)857713863 TLC TLC TxAuBib Lethem, Jonathan. Dissident gardens [Bridges eBook] : a novel / Jonathan Lethem. Waterville, Maine : Doubleday, 2013. 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2495kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Electronic book. "A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her brilliant and willful daughter, Miriam, is equally passionate in her activism, but flees Rose's suffocating influence and embraces the Age of Aquarius counterculture of Greenwich Village. Both women cast spells that entrance or enchain the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her nephew, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. These flawed, idealistic people all struggle to follow their own utopian dreams in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As the decades pass--from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment--we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Brilliantly constructed as it weaves across time and among characters, Dissident Gardens is riotous and haunting, satiric and sympathetic--and a joy to read"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013 Available via World Wide Web. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Family life Fiction. Radicals Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Politics and government Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Sagas. FICTION / Urban Life. Electronic books. OverDrive, Inc. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=22202095-68F4-426A-B502-97963F05F0B5 https://samples.overdrive.com/dissident-gardens?.epub-sample.overdrive.com